History corner: this summer, leading a cancer charity walk, Jonathan Dimbleby and throng passed what he called the “spiritual home” of the Richmond and Twickenham Times: born 1873, owned by the Dimbleby family from 1896 to 2001; editor-in-chief 1946-1965, Richard Dimbleby; managing director from 1965 till 2001, big brother David.

And what happened after 2001, when Newsquest, soon to be owned by the mighty Gannett corporation of America, bought the paper? It moved and moved again, coming to rest in a Sutton “content area”, where last week Newsquest moved to make 11 more redundancies, leaving perhaps just 18 toiling souls to service 11 print titles and eight attendant websites. Oh, and take your own pictures. We’ve just ditched the professional agency which used to take some for us.

It isn’t as though Newsquest doesn’t make a profit. It made nearly £60m last year. It isn’t as though Newsquest is getting out of papers either. It bought 29 in Scotland and Ireland recently. It’s just that the dear dead days of the Dimblebys have been ground to a particular sort of dust. And who in post-Brexit Britain can forget the warning in Gannett’s annual report? “Weakening of the British pound sterling to the US dollar exchange rate could diminish Newsquest’s earnings contribution to our consolidated results of operations.”